Bluewater Safari - Season 1 Episode 01- Shark Bite
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00:00Crop and with a crew of young ocean explorers we are going on an epic
00:06adventure to visit some of the most pristine and remote parts of the Coral
00:10Sea. Hi I'm Loz, I'm a firefighter. G'day I'm Tyler. So my role on the boat is to
00:17take care of the crew if anything should happen to Dean. Hey I'm Div. I'm bang
00:21into my highlining, my climbing, adventures of any sort. I just swim with
00:25shark ox. My name is Annika, otherwise known as Nunu. Hi my name is Melissa, a
00:30little freaked out, don't know what to expect. My name is Luis and I'm a
00:33musician from Brazil. There's seven of us crammed into my trusty catamaran
00:39barefoot. We're following in the footsteps of my filmmaker father Ben Crop. Dad was a
00:46nature adventure filmmaker back in the 70s. He actually started out as a shark
00:51hunter. Then he became a protector of sharks. And I feel the same way. We'll
00:58see if things have changed and we'll make discoveries of our own. It's really
01:04wearing me out. As we sail across an ocean frontier to somewhere so isolated no
01:11one ever goes there. And it's one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
01:17Wherever the winds and currents take us. That storm is much worse than I expected.
01:23We'll find out just a little bit about ourselves. I'm not okay with this. And the
01:30wonderful world we live in. Come with us on an extraordinary coral sea adventure.
01:39It's the first morning of our blue water safari.
02:00So we're out of a bit of a secret North Coast location where one of our crew members has been
02:14there a bunch of days, not seen anyone. We're gonna be the first people she's seen in a little while.
02:17So the next trip is to try and find her on the beach. We're picking up our last crew member, Melissa.
02:25She's been hanging out in a crazy secluded spot on the North Coast of New South Wales.
02:31Mel. Mel. Hey. Yeah, Captain's looking for you. You should be, you should be able to hear him. He's in a dinghy.
02:39Now, I didn't expect this to be an adventure. We haven't even started yet.
02:45Captain, can you see Mel? Mel, maybe wave your phone. Or...
02:49No, I can't see anything yet. I'm at the beach. But do you know where she is?
02:55Mel, where exactly are you?
02:57She's just on the beach somewhere, Captain. Can you shine a light? I'll get her to shine one if she can.
03:05Oh, nothing. Where is she? Hang on.
03:10OK, OK, maybe he's got you. Just, yeah, keep shining it all directions.
03:14OK, yeah, I see her. I see her. She's down the other end of the beach. Hang on, stand by.
03:18He's got you. He's got you. OK.
03:22Hi, everyone. Hi.
03:25Putting a crew together for a three-month voyage is really difficult.
03:29There are so many things to consider when you're asking people to live together for so long
03:34in a confined space. Welcome. Thank you. Welcome. Welcome.
03:52I've got this crew of six. Some I know really well, and others I just don't.
03:58But everyone has a role to play on the boat.
04:01I don't know how they're all going to perform or how well they'll all get along with each other.
04:07A boat crew can really fall apart if you don't all get along.
04:11Things get really dangerous.
04:13And it's hard to survive months at sea with someone you don't like.
04:18My hope, instead, is that out here, lifelong friendships will be formed.
04:35It's so good.
04:37Bye, land.
04:38Bye.
04:39We'll miss you.
04:40And your granular beauty.
04:43Shootin' goodbye, reception.
04:45Goodbye, Dad.
04:46Bye.
04:47Bye, man.
04:48Bye, Grandma.
04:49Bye, Grandma.
04:50I love you.
04:54I don't know what to expect.
04:56I don't know what the weather will be, or what amazing sea life will encounter,
05:00or what dangers lie ahead.
05:02I don't even know if barefoot can last the distance.
05:06Whatever breaks, I really hope I can fix it.
05:10Time will tell, I guess.
05:13We've set the sails now, and we are heading offshore, out to Middleton Reef,
05:18away from civilisation, away from people.
05:22I'm so excited.
05:23Woo-hoo!
05:24Wish the wind would give us a better direction.
05:28Despite the wind not being perfect,
05:30there's this welcome buzz of excitement and expectation on board,
05:34helped along by the arrival of our very special escort,
05:38this huge pod of Pacific bottlenose dolphins.
05:42They're coming back!
05:43Woo!
05:44Woo!
05:45Woo!
05:47Woo!
05:52This is an incredible send-off for our adventure.
05:55Yeah.
06:00I love dolphins!
06:02Woo!
06:06Look at that!
06:07There's another 30 coming towards us!
06:20Bloody awesome.
06:21It's a really good omen to have dolphins playing on the bow as you leave.
06:28Those dolphins have made me a little more relaxed
06:31and they've taken away that nagging feeling in the bottom of my stomach.
06:36Perhaps this expedition will be everything I hope for.
06:40Adventure. I feel like we're really, really lucky.
06:43From here is probably the toughest part of the expedition.
06:54We've got three full days hard sailing non-stop to Middleton Reef.
06:59Now we could run into a whale or submerged shipping containers.
07:03Gear could break and the weather, well, it can change so quickly.
07:13So the wind's getting a bit too strong for our screech-up
07:26and so it's just kind of flapping around a little bit.
07:31What's just happening, Gaffey?
07:34Well, the wind came up a bit strong.
07:37We're now hitting over 15 knots
07:39and that big headsel just can't handle over 15 knots.
07:41So even though we were going nice and fast
07:45and we're moving really well
07:46and now we're just changing sails over.
07:48We'll go for the small head sail
07:49to put another sheet on it to pull it back.
07:53Try and get everything trimmed
07:54so we can sail through the night without having to change too much.
08:01I've got to turn the boat into the wind.
08:03So we're head on.
08:04They'll blow the screech-up hopefully back onto the boat
08:07and the boys can pull it down
08:09and we can all be safe.
08:19That sail change was actually quite fortunate for me.
08:23It's given me an early look
08:24into how the crew can work together.
08:27And you know what?
08:28They've done all right.
08:29Now we're taking the same course
08:40my dad did out here to Middleton Reef
08:42and when he was out here back in the 60s and 70s
08:45he was hit by a five-day storm.
08:47It almost completely scuttled his whole expedition.
08:50Now, the weather's holding for us
08:52so I think we're going to be fine.
08:57To sustain ourselves at sea for this long
09:00fishing will almost be a daily activity.
09:03Now we only catch what we need to feed ourselves.
09:08It always helps if the only thing you're catching are fish.
09:13Sometimes things don't always go to plan though.
09:15We've got a fishing line around the prop so we've got to free it up or at least just check it
09:26make sure that it's not all wrapped around it.
09:28Sometimes the prop spins so much that the line fuses onto the shaft.
09:34So we're going to hove to in the middle of the ocean
09:36and I'm going to check the prop.
09:41As we're tacking, the boat reversed a little bit
09:43when we were running one of the engines
09:45and as they tacked we must have backed over the fishing line
09:49and now it's caught and wound up on our prop.
09:54But if we keep running that engine
09:56we could tangle it up so much that we damage it
09:58and then we're in big trouble
09:59because we're out in the middle of the ocean.
10:01So Tuller's drawn the short straw, he gets to go in the water
10:04but in some ways it's better I'm here to control the boat
10:07and it doesn't sail away on him.
10:11Just a note, it's about 4,500 metres deep here.
10:17Ready, Tuller?
10:18Ready.
10:20We're like 600 kilometres away from mainland Australia.
10:25There's 4 kilometres of water underneath us
10:28and the engine's not working.
10:34This is actually a very dangerous thing to do.
10:44If a wave was to hit us suddenly
10:45the boat could move
10:47Tuller gets hit in the head
10:48knocked out
10:50and it's a long way down.
10:52What's going on?
11:03So there was the fishing line right
11:33around the prop, and it turned in such a way that it had all gotten right in this middle
11:37section.
11:38Really hard to get out, especially with the boat going up and down all the time.
11:42You've got this prop shooting for your face, you've got to hold onto it and try and pry
11:47with a knife the rope out.
11:49And so you're holding onto the knife and you're moving as well, there's always a risk of stabbing
11:52yourself.
11:53And the boat greys up against me, just small barnacle cuts, but in the tropics they can
11:59get infected really easily, so just going to treat them.
12:02We should be good to go now.
12:03We should be good to start the prop and test it and see if it works.
12:09Yes!
12:10Well done, Tyler.
12:11Nice work.
12:13What a beautiful morning out here.
12:14We call this a glass out.
12:15You don't get that this often.
12:16You don't get that this often in the middle of the ocean.
12:23It's completely flat.
12:24Absolutely zero wind.
12:25Which is massively horrible for us sailing.
12:26We can't get anywhere with this.
12:27We can't get anywhere with this.
12:28We can't get anywhere with this.
12:34But it is useful for one thing.
12:35A deep ocean swim.
12:36A deep ocean swim.
12:37A deep ocean swim.
12:38A deep ocean swim.
12:39beautiful.
12:40From here at the fertile lake.
12:43It's going to be a little offshore.
12:45It's down from the marsh and sling and sling and sling and sling.
12:46It's exactement in the dark sea.
12:50So what a beautiful morning out here.
12:51We call this a glass out.
12:52You can't get the little water in the middle of the ocean.
12:53It's completely flat, absolutely zero wind.
12:54We can't get anywhere with this.
12:57But it is useful for one thing.
13:04The deep ocean swim.
13:10And it's not just a little deep out here.
13:12It's over four kilometres deep.
13:15And we are hundreds of miles from anywhere.
13:24And you get to swim in this endless visibility,
13:30this deep ocean that is almost...
13:33It's almost like having vertigo when you look down.
13:37It's like flying through a blue space.
13:54Not many people in the world get a chance to do this.
13:58And it's so amazing, it's inspired Nunu to poetry.
14:03Our sails are deemed useless.
14:06So we pause our journey and enjoy this rare moment,
14:10gazing over the side down into the water.
14:13You would expect it to be deep dark blue, almost grey or black.
14:18You would be wrong.
14:20And pleasantly surprised,
14:22the sunlight dances into the depths
14:24a royal electric blue invites us in.
14:28Together we slip into the warm blue ocean.
14:32Nothing and no one around us.
14:35Four kilometres beneath our suspended bodies,
14:38we are merely tiny drops of life
14:41in a vast body of water
14:43that covers most of our beautiful blue planet.
14:46A unique treat.
14:48We dance and play in an oceanic wonderland.
15:04Nunu gets right into the spirit of it,
15:06breaking out the mermaid tail.
15:08Well, why not?
15:16I tried.
15:17Wait, is that a mermaid?
15:18I tried.
15:19Wait, is that a mermaid?
15:20I tried.
15:21Wait, is that a mermaid?
15:22I tried.
15:23Wait, is that a mermaid?
15:24I tried.
15:25Wait, is that a mermaid?
15:27I tried.
15:28I tried.
15:29Wait, is that a mermaid?
15:30For Divya and Lewis, every ocean crossing comes with one constant companion.
15:34Seasickness.
15:35You know, like, when you wake up sissy, you spend the whole day sissy.
15:37Just the idea of recording something is making me feel sissy right now.
15:38Just the idea of recording something is making me feel sissy right now.
15:39You know, like, when you wake up sissy, you spend the whole day sissy.
15:44Just the idea of recording something is making me feel sissy right now.
15:45I just, it's just, like, annoying.
15:46But there's always that one annoying thing.
15:47You know, like, when you wake up sissy, you spend the whole day sissy.
16:03Just the idea of recording something is making me feel sissy right now.
16:07I just, it's just, like, annoying.
16:09But there's always that one annoying person with perfect sea legs.
16:16Nah, I haven't felt seasick at all.
16:19So, I've been having a great time, actually.
16:22I've been reading books, my Kindle, working off my laptop, stretching.
16:29Not sure what everyone else is feeling queasy about, really.
16:34Is everything alright?
16:35Yeah!
16:36You're here.
16:37You're here.
16:38We're here.
16:39You're here.
16:41You're here.
16:42You're here.
16:43You're here.
16:44You're here.
16:45You're here.
16:46You're here.
16:47You're here.
16:49You're here, Ruth.
16:50That's what you're here.
16:51You're here, Ruth.
16:52Wow.
16:53It's incredible out here.
16:56Because all you see up the top are stars.
17:00stars there's nothing forever and the sky is lit up and now the seas lit up
17:10this is one of the greatest joys of nighttime sailing this globe or
17:17bioluminescence is caused by microscopic plankton called dino flagellus it looks
17:25very psychedelic when they're disturbed in the water they give off this microsecond burst of blue
17:44green light and when there's millions of them they're all joined together in this crazy eerie
17:50sci-fi globe and it's calm the water's completely glassy and there's just there's just a stream of
18:02green fairy dust kind of like powder when you're skiing it's just all so beautiful
18:20we're almost there um there's a shipwreck just here and that means that we're almost there
18:32I'm excited after uh some late nights the two two a.m. till six a.m. shifts I'm ready I'm ready to
18:43get to land not land land can't call it land there is no land I'm excited I'm excited to have some
18:54stillness have some quiet place that we can just rest not having this boat bouncing around rocking
19:01with the crossing so I'm really looking forward to have this anchoring Saturday lagoon I know it's
19:08beautiful there so looking forward we are almost there it's been three days of sailing and motoring
19:18and rocking around and here we are we are just coming into Middleton reef barely any sun left we'll
19:25just make it into Anchorage for the evening it's been such a good trip across but I'm so excited to go
19:32explore this reef it is so cool and we can just see the runic this big shipwreck just coming up on
19:37the horizon now my dad called this place tragedy reef and for good reason the place is littered with
19:46shipwrecks it's a totally submerged reef really hard to see and the outer reef edge is really treacherous
19:53and the lagoon entrance where we want to anchor is super narrow it's hard to find in daylight let alone
20:00dusk we'll be there in about half an hour and I think we've got barely half an hour of sun left to
20:10get into our anchorage whoo pressure's on
20:14this is super borderline that sun is right on the horizon still got about 10 minutes to run to the reef
20:35entrance five minutes 10 minutes to run to the reef entrance and it's no coincidence that the wreck of
20:44the runics over my shoulder there just to remind me if I get this wrong what happens to you at this reef
20:49if you run into the reef now I've got much more complex navigation systems than they did back then but I can't
20:59see in the dark so I just need a little bit of light to get through this reef otherwise you gotta sit out
21:05here in the deep water and roll around all night I don't want to do that I've got my more experienced crew
21:12on the bow of the boat they're checking for reef bombings and measuring the depth now I've got to get
21:18this right or we'll end up as our own tragedy on this reef
21:22perhaps the crew have been feeling my stress about navigating this entrance
21:30Tyler has found a way to break the tension
21:33we've pushed it right to the edge this is much tighter than I would ever want to do this but
21:58either we go in now or we sit out here and drift all night I don't really want to do that
22:11let's just drop Nunu on the reef over there and she can be a channel marker she's so high-vis
22:16I can see the entrance even though it's quite dark I can actually see see the reef
22:33but it's really borderline four meters
22:38okay nine meters seven six meters all right sand coming
22:46three meters now
22:53very shallow
23:09all right everyone we're safe
23:10welcome to Middleton
23:15all right someone get the captain a beer
23:17get it yourself
23:18you're fired
23:22you can't fire me I live here
23:24I live here
23:29woohoo
23:31thank you
23:33thank you
23:35well done
23:37well done
23:39yeah
23:41thank you
23:42thank you
23:46thank you
23:48yes
23:50and lime
23:54so it's our first morning in Middleton
24:01and it's calm it's crystal clear blue water and calm as anything
24:11there is not a single soul inside except for our little family on board
24:16and it's just a really nice time to get away from all the mayhem and really strip it back to
24:24what's natural
24:26i want to see the sharks i've been dreaming about my little sea puppies and
24:32i want to explore some more wrecks i want to kind of get to know a bit more of the history and see what it's all about
24:44we are surrounded by the carcasses of ships just scattered over the shallow reef
24:49completely surrounding this lagoon and it's really wonderful to get to know the history of these
24:56ships and why they crashed here and what happened to the crew and what remains in the sun that's
25:02just bleaching and rotting and rusting
25:05so it's one thing to be able to see the shipwrecks from above when we cruise over the top of them
25:09and that's really so we can figure out which ones we want to go and see a little bit more close
25:13up today we're going to go and see the runic
25:15the runic smashed on a middleton reef in may of 1961 while traveling from brisbane to new zealand
25:25but by some miracle all 69 of her crew survived and they were rescued just days before a cyclone hit
25:33that sealed her fate
25:37now we can get up close to it because usually the waves are going
25:41on the hull and the boat's moving and everything's a little bit crazy you're not really
25:44sure if the anchor's going to hold where you want it to and out here you really want to be as safe
25:48as you can so today because it's so calm and smooth and beautiful we're able to take the dengue right
25:53up to it and we can really get amongst this shipwreck get amongst this dead thing that still leaves
25:59some tales to be told by us going there for we're the ones to tell the tales
26:04my father came here and he was just taken aback by the beauty of this place and always shipwrecks
26:15that this treasure hunting thing is in our blood we can't shake it we love it
26:22and i want to explore the whole place i want to go everywhere i want to check all of it out
26:26it's not the smallest reef to swim around that it's pretty long it's just a place of wonder it's a
26:33place of unknowns and it's got a really bad reputation so nobody comes here
26:40it's um a very eerie and beautiful landscape and place to be to explore the fish you know love living
26:49in and around these shipwrecks and the birds the sea birds that here are it's the only thing they have
26:54to perch on and live on yeah they're all rusted and um decrepit and slowly decaying it's really it's
27:03really awesome to see what happens to to stuff when it's just left out here and i cannot wait to
27:10to check out underneath and go go have a little swim
27:29so
27:40we dive down and there's just huge anchors and big pipes and all this machinery and just pieces of
27:57metal that have been like twisted and bent over time and it's so much fun to dive through it and feel
28:02like a treasure hunter we saw massive rays we saw a huge black cod really big fish all the other different
28:08types of fish as well so many different colors are so beautiful down there and all of them are so
28:13inquisitive because it's a sanctuary here that the fish come right up to you they've probably never
28:17even seen another human being before they come right up to you and they feel like little puppy dogs
28:22and the the creatures here behave so differently to anywhere else because they're so not used to human
28:28contact um which is a pretty wonderful unique experience you know the sharks and the fish are
28:36really curious about you because they're confused they're not habituated they're not used to having
28:42you know groups of tourists around them they're just you know quite friendly and and um it's wonderful to
28:50have that experience to swim with these creatures that are you know curious and gentle and um also a bit
28:58wild you know it's it's it's not all roses there there are apex predators out here that we need to be aware
29:03of like tiger sharks so we are in their home we are visitors here this is their home so um we have
29:11to respect that but with gratitude it's beautiful it's really beautiful it's incredible
29:18i never knew my new favorite thing would be swimming with rusty stuff and fishes
29:30it's amazing the shipwreck is just amazing it's really crazy to think about how over so many years
29:39it's just slowly eroded and rusted and not only that but like swimming around it is just tropical fish
29:46everywhere it makes it look really beautiful though like this old man-made structures and these
29:53beautiful tropical fish that have decided to make it a home now
29:56i saw so many things that i've never seen before i saw fish big like fins that came out flared out like
30:12this and lots of like fluorescent dots i saw i saw a mangeray or a stingray i'm not sure which one it was
30:21is there were these really long needle nose sort of things there was one fish it kind of looked
30:28like a starfish but it was moving like an octopus and it was and i picked up a rock and it was under
30:33there and it like cracked away when i picked up the rock and i kept picking up the rocks and i kept
30:37creeping back under more rocks the fish are of a tropical variety so they come in all sorts of different
30:46colors and shapes and sizes and there's so much treasure that's down there there's so much
30:52copper that looks golden because it's been rubbed clean by the surf and by the cyclones in this area
30:59super vibrant like really colorful
31:05and all different kinds
31:06while you can be easily distracted by the beauty and wonder out here danger does lurk middleton is
31:17famous for sharks you always have to keep your wits about you so for me there's this
31:24like buzzing excitement that is happening all the time you're one of the nature like feeling alive all
31:31the time i always like check if there's sharks around or or if there's like any big one around that
31:39you you're not aware before and then suddenly it can become dangerous
31:45i just turned around and i was looking at this shark and i was going he's a bit bigger than the other ones
32:12and i point him out to nunu and as i point him out he turns side on and we just see these stripes down
32:18the side and it's a tiger shark
32:23tiger sharks are really dangerous i told everyone out of the water everyone get out right now and i
32:28hung back near the boat and he came right up to me a couple of times i got some really good shots
32:33but they're definitely a whole lot scarier he's a good three or four times the size of all the other
32:38sharks he's probably four meters long three meters four meters long that shark could definitely kill
32:43you no messing around he could absolutely kill you
32:52and then
32:55and then the tiger shark came through and also you can hear squealing through the snorkel
32:59and jim goes get out of the water calmly swimming back to the boat as quickly as you can
33:07that was awesome so cool that was the one thing i really wanted to see a tiger shark so that was
33:14really beautiful that was awesome it was really cool
33:28i love that baby baby shark do do do do do mama shark do do do do mama shark do do do do tiger shark
33:38do do do do do do do do do tiger shark do do do do do do do
33:52so we just had a three and a half meter tiger shark come up to the back of the boat and just munch
34:09on the back of the boat and the dinghy outboard and the dinky rope basically it was chewing everything
34:14that it could to see what was edible having a tiger shark bite the back of my boat is a big first for
34:19me that was a really intense thing to happen and i've been trying to work out why see back in my
34:24dad's day they were feeding the sharks all the time we can't do that out here so why did he come
34:29up and bite the back of the boat
34:36well all the excitement of us swimming around and splashing around with the whalers then getting up on
34:41deck and stomping around they can hear that underwater we even saw him have a go at the propeller
34:46underneath the boat the big steel propeller thing i don't know maybe they look like flippers or
34:50something like that and as he came around the back of the boat one of the bilge pumps in the
34:55engine room started up and that was enough that he wanted to have a taste he wanted to find out what
34:59this big thing was and he had a bite of the back of the boat and that's the thing about tiger sharks
35:06if you're in the water and he may not necessarily want to eat you but he wants to taste what you are
35:11he's inquisitive and a tiger shark having a taste of you having one bite would be fatal out here
35:19everyone was a little bit excited at the first instance because it's always exciting to see a
35:24tiger shark but then we started realizing how dangerous it was because this meant we couldn't
35:28go in the water anymore in that spot because the tiger shark would be there waiting for us
35:33having a go at our flippers i think tiger sharks are beautiful gorgeous
35:38i might not like them as much as i do right now if i was in the water with them
35:44well that's totally shut down diving for the rest of the day is way too dangerous but from the safety
35:51of on deck on barefoot it's amazing we can sit here and watch this beautiful creature circle the boat this
35:58amazing killing machine we get to experience so close it really is awe inspiring to see this amazing
36:05animal up this close i still will be swimming but i will have a always subconscious thought that there
36:13are creatures they're a lot bigger than us and they're in these waters they're close by
36:19there is so much more for us to explore here at middleton so i really hope my crew can
36:25get up the courage to get back in the water tomorrow
36:28and yeah we have to share the ocean with a huge creature like that tiger shark every day but hey
36:36that's why i love this place
36:49so
37:06so
37:19so
37:25so
37:27While it was exhilarating to see a tiger shark yesterday,
37:51this place is actually famous for a different type of shark.
37:55They're called grey whalers or Galapagos whalers,
37:59and these guys are relatively harmless.
38:02And I really want the crew to have this experience of swimming with them.
38:06I just hope I can convince them to come in with me.
38:11So I'm excited for the little skit as well.
38:15So we're in a spot where there's lots of sharks, little sharks, but still lots of them.
38:21Uh, yeah, a little freaked out. Don't know what to expect, really.
38:25Um, and, um, but I'm sure I'll be okay.
38:29The rest of the crew are pretty, uh, they know what they're doing.
38:33Um, but everyone else has a knife, so I'm a little bit worried.
38:39I don't have a knife, so I'm hoping I survive unscathed.
38:44Mm-hmm.
38:52So according to Dean, when they are feeding, there's a similar sound.
39:01So they just get, they just go get around.
39:03My dad actually got famous because he was a shark hunter.
39:08He would come to places like this to kill the sharks.
39:11You know, back then, in the 50s, 60s, 70s, every shark was a man-eater.
39:16And... Camera Tyler.
39:20And since then, we've learnt it's not like that at all.
39:24You know, a lot of these sharks are quite friendly,
39:27are quite exciting to swim with.
39:28You know, these little grey whalers are pretty safe
39:33when there's three or four or five of them.
39:35They're really inquisitive.
39:36They're amazing creatures to watch and swim with.
39:39And my father was one of the first people to realise that.
39:43And he started changing people's minds
39:45that we should protect sharks, not kill them.
39:48And I feel the same way.
39:58They are not what most people think.
40:20I know most people, you know, think that they're the most scary predators out there.
40:24And if you really look at the statistics, more people die from cows than sharks.
40:28And if you stop and think that they're actually just fish,
40:32and they're out looking for a meal that suits them.
40:35And when you see a little shark,
40:36they're usually looking for something smaller than them.
40:38When they see us, we're an apex predator to them.
40:42Especially these ones that we're swimming with.
40:44They're much smaller than us.
40:45So they're looking up to us as predators.
40:47And sharks are actually pretty lazy hunters.
40:51They will much prefer to scavenge for their food rather than ambush.
40:54And so these little sharky friends that are following us around
40:58are actually looking to us for a feed.
41:00They're looking to us to hunt and then they want to steal our food.
41:03So, yeah, it's quite different to what you would expect.
41:06And if you stay calm with them, they will stay calm with you too.
41:09And if they can smell fear, like, you know,
41:13everyone says they smell fear. Animals really do.
41:16I think the coolest part about swimming with sharks
41:19is the fact that it's such a taboo topic.
41:22You know, the media plays them out to be these really vicious things
41:26that will attack anything and everything.
41:28But swimming with them, you realise that they're really just gentle creatures.
41:31They're curious, but they're not that aggressive, attack anything.
41:41I don't want to portray them as that scary, vicious animal.
41:44I want to portray them as little beautiful sea puppies that we get to play with.
41:50And not cuddle, but swim around.
41:57This is the closest I've ever got to them before.
41:59They would even rub up against you a little bit.
42:01And I thought they were rough, but they're actually a little bit slimy and slippery.
42:05They weren't bothered that we were there at all.
42:07They were perfectly happy just to swim along next to us.
42:10And we could stare into their eyes and they could stare into ours.
42:13And we just had, um, we both had curiosity in each other.
42:17And so swimming next to something that didn't know what you were,
42:20they're such sensitive creatures.
42:23They can, they have all these, it feels like superpowers
42:25when you hear about the documentaries of sharks,
42:27the ways that they can sense blood and the electromagnetism of it all.
42:31And I could see it on top of their head as I swam above them
42:34because we were so close to these sharks.
42:39One of them came right up next to my arm right here.
42:42And it looked like he was going to be like,
42:46He's like, what do you taste like?
42:47You guys are weird.
42:48What do you taste like?
42:49Because they've got little bites all over them as well.
42:51And so they must have a little bit of pecking order play where they bite into each other
42:55and just teach each other who's boss.
42:56And so if they think we're one of them,
42:58then maybe they're going to try and have a little nip as well.
43:01And that's the biggest danger you've got is a little nip, I think.
43:04I'm so glad I could convince everyone to get back in the water
43:16to swim with these amazing grey whalers.
43:19And without being harassed by our friendly neighbourhood tiger shark.
43:27Oh, wait, hang on a minute.
43:31That's a tiger shark, not a whaler.
43:32Everyone out, out, out, out.
43:34Next time on Blue Water Safari.
43:45I think I'm more nervous walking through here than I am swimming with sharks.
43:50More people have been shipwrecked on this reef than have come here on purpose.
43:56There's something special here.
43:58My dad called it tragedy reef.
44:01People died here.
44:04See all this beautiful sea life and this gorgeous blue water.
44:08And behind her, it looked like there were more sharks than water.
44:15Little blue bowl of paradise.
44:17See you pretty much, here's aishing salad.
44:32I'm fully.
44:32I'm so excited, but we just rive away even if we can!
44:35That was full oflander's infrastructure in the questee.
44:37My교 saves currently!
44:39I'm rich in paradise!
44:40In Australia!
44:42I'm into one of the front Johnsуж.
44:42They want to jump there.
44:43I'm very 행복 crazy!
44:43I'm so excited.
44:44I'm really glad I'm having help!
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